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Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Nov 27, 10:08am, mrg@eterna.com.au (matthew green) wrote:
> -- Subject: re: lwp id in ktrace
>
> Yes, by adding a version record. If that record is absent, then we fall
> back to the old code.
>
> christos
>
> |
> | I've been thinking about this, and I cannot see how we can do it easily
> | in a backwards compatible way. Unfortunately there is no header in the
> | ktrace.out files so that we can deduce the version (we could add a version
> | header now though).
> |
> | is there a way to change the output such that old kdump will simply
> | fail gracefully with new input?
I think what Matt was asking is if an old kdump binary will still be
able to successfully process a new file with a version record?
Simon.
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